Chapter 404: Tell Me Your Choice

After everyone finished the cleansing, Elder Qingxuan dismissed the others, letting them return to their quarters to rest, and left only Gu Yuan, taking him to a quiet chamber deep within the temple.

Inside the chamber, heavy seals hung, pink celestial mist swirled, cutting off all external probing, and the air was filled with a sweet, cloying fragrance that could stir a cultivator's heart fire.

"Yuan, do you know why I kept you alone?"

Elder Qingxuan glided forward on lotus steps, closed the stone door, turned to look at Gu Yuan, and the kindly smile on his face gradually turned into a blatant greed and allure.

Her palace attire moved without a breeze, further revealing the breathtaking curves.

Gu Yuan lowered his eyelids, assuming a respectful demeanor:

"Disciple is foolish, please instruct, Elder."

"Because of your talent, you deserve better cultivation."

Elder Qingxuan paced to Gu Yuan's front, extended a warm jade-like slender finger, lightly brushed Gu Yuan's chest, and exhaled like orchid:

"As long as you are willing to devote everything to me, I guarantee that on the future True Immortal battlefield, you will not only survive, escape your lowly status, but also obtain supreme immortal fate, and even... it is not impossible for me to help you walk the Immortal King Path together."

Gu Yuan said nothing, merely standing silently.

Elder Qingxuan saw him stunned by her promise and charm, her red lips curled into a smug arc, and she could already imagine the wonderful scene of completely draining this perfect Dao body full of endless potential, her own cultivation soaring, a leap to heaven.

She pressed against him with a supple, boneless softness, her hands encircling Gu Yuan's neck, her alluring eyes like silk: "Come, I will teach you the technique, let sister see just how great your capacity... really is."

Before the words finished, her internal charming technique surged to the extreme, an invisible suction burst from her body, turning into countless unseen tendrils that rushed madly toward Gu Yuan's dantian, attempting to devour his origin primordial Yang entirely.

However, at the instant her technique operated.

Gu Yuan lifted his head.

In those jet‑black eyes, there was no bewilderment and sinking as she expected, only a bottomless indifference and mockery.

"Is that all?"

The two words, light and floating, yet like thunder from the nine heavens, reverberated explosively in Elder Qingxuan's sea of consciousness.

Her internal technique instantly lost control!

"What's happening?!"

Elder Qingxuan let out a terrified scream, horrified to discover that her immortal essence, refined blood, and even the Dao Fruit's origin were rushing toward Gu Yuan's body at a dam‑bursting speed!

She turned from a supplementer into a cauldron being supplemented in an instant!

Had she not interrupted in time, the consequences would have been unimaginable!

"You... what did you do to me?!"

She tried to break free, to retreat, but Gu Yuan's hand had somehow already pressed on her Tianling Cover, an irresistible devouring force rendering her immobile.

"Nothing."

Gu Yuan's mouth curled into a playful arc, and he even kindly stopped the devouring, letting her experience a pull from the edge of hell,

"Just returning to you what you gave me."

"Now..."

"Kneel."

Lightly, without any emotion.

"What did you say?! You lowly..."

Her words were cut off.

An absolute command, originating from the deepest part of her divine soul, erupted with a boom!

"Splash!"

Elder Qingxuan's knees, uncontrollably, slammed heavily onto the ground, and the hard immortal‑gold floor was struck with two deep knee imprints.

She was completely stunned.

Her body, her immortal essence, her law... at this moment, were entirely out of her control!

She tried to stand, to roar, to resist, but her body remained knelt rigidly on the ground, unable even to lift her head.

An extreme fear, like cold tide, instantly flooded her divine soul.

She finally realized something.

"No... impossible... my divine soul seal... the Transformation Immortal Pool's slave seal... how could it..."

She anxiously looked inward at her sea of consciousness.

Within her sea of consciousness, her True Immortal Dao Fruit was being tightly bound by a strange seal emitting a gray‑purple glow.

The seal's shape was unmistakably the Transformation Immortal Pool's slave seal, yet the will it contained was domineering, majestic, bearing a supreme aura like that of a creator deity!

Her own slave seal, in turn, enslaved her!

Gu Yuan walked to her front, looking down on her as if gazing at an ant,

"Now tell me your choice."

Gu Yuan's voice was very calm.

"Do you wish to have your divine soul annihilated now, or... become an obedient dog for me to use?"

Elder Meifu trembled violently all over.

She is a peak‑level True Immortal, an elder of the Mixed Heaven Sacred Land, a being about to touch the threshold of the Immortal King!

She has her dignity, her pride.

But at this moment, faced with the absolute terror of a divine soul completely controlled, where life and death hinge on a single thought, all dignity and pride become vulnerable.

She has lived for millions of years; she does not want to die.

"I... I..."

She struggled, roared, and deep within her divine soul, the will of a True Immortal strongman rebelled wildly.

Gu Yuan merely gently moved his thoughts.

"Ah—!"

Elder Qing Xuan let out a wail unlike any human voice; she felt every inch of her spirit being ground over and over.

Within a single instant, her Dao‑heart completely collapsed.

"I… I am willing… I am willing, Master! I will do anything! Please… spare me… spare me!"

Her once charming, enchanting face now streamed with tears and snot, dust‑covered, devoid of any of her usual pride and allure.

"Very well." Gu Yuan withdrew the thread of punitive intent.

He watched Elder Qing Xuan kneeling on the ground, drenched in cold sweat, panting like a dying dog, his eyes showing no ripple.

"From today onward, you remain the Reception Elder of the Mixed Heaven Sacred Land."

"And I am still, in your eyes, that exceptionally gifted, specially‑cared‑for lower‑realm prodigy."

"What you should do, what you shouldn't, you don't need my teaching, right?"

"Under…stood! Understood!"

Elder Qing Xuan lowered her head further, voice trembling, "I… I, your servant… will obey you, handle everything!"

"Rise. Perform well, remember, don't disappoint me."

"Otherwise, I wouldn't mind swapping for a more obedient dog."

…

Half a day later.

The stone gate opened, then slowly closed again.

In the quiet chamber, only Elder Qing Xuan remained, still kneeling, her eyes filled with endless fear and bewilderment.

The heavens have changed.